Matt Staub
@staubio.com
Jaded KCMO urbanist. Marketing agency owner. Curious person. Creative generalist. Traveler. Visited 49/50 largest US metros.
Hey downtown KC: I'm in the market for a new office space effective January. Small office or coworking within a few blocks of the streetcar preferred. Recommendations appreciated!
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hey downtown KC: I'm in the market for a new office space effective January. Small office or coworking within a few blocks of the streetcar preferred. Recommendations appreciated!
Housing for people > housing for cars!
"Historic West Bottoms project will re-convert building, turning garage into 60 apartments"
www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...
www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...
Historic West Bottoms project will re-convert building, turning garage into 60 apartments - Kansas City Business Journal
A pioneering West Bottoms redevelopment plans to add 140 new apartments in a pair of historic buildings, including one it originally converted into a garage.
www.bizjournals.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Housing for people > housing for cars!
As a marketing agency owner, I loathe Black Friday. Not just dealing with ads on the client side, but determining if I need to optimize my spend toward every platform and subscription I use that goes on sale at this time — and feeling like a chump for paying full price.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
As a marketing agency owner, I loathe Black Friday. Not just dealing with ads on the client side, but determining if I need to optimize my spend toward every platform and subscription I use that goes on sale at this time — and feeling like a chump for paying full price.
Every part of the delivery economy makes life in the city worse. More traffic and illegal parking, fewer people walking, empty restaurants with a revolving door of drivers barging through, etc.
I get that there is a time and place for delivery, but I implore you: go be among the people!
I get that there is a time and place for delivery, but I implore you: go be among the people!
I’ve witnessed gig economy food delivery workers being so fucking rude to restaurant workers too frequently recently ….
…. Whatever convenience you think you are getting … downstream it often involves somebody barging their way through a line of people just to harangue a teenaged cashier or host
…. Whatever convenience you think you are getting … downstream it often involves somebody barging their way through a line of people just to harangue a teenaged cashier or host
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Every part of the delivery economy makes life in the city worse. More traffic and illegal parking, fewer people walking, empty restaurants with a revolving door of drivers barging through, etc.
I get that there is a time and place for delivery, but I implore you: go be among the people!
I get that there is a time and place for delivery, but I implore you: go be among the people!
The River Market is losing its neighborhood bike shop at the end of the year. :/ Cycling is still too much of a drive-to-ride culture in this city, and the neighborhood is still car centric and Amazon-supplied.
I had high hopes but this is a bummer.
I had high hopes but this is a bummer.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The River Market is losing its neighborhood bike shop at the end of the year. :/ Cycling is still too much of a drive-to-ride culture in this city, and the neighborhood is still car centric and Amazon-supplied.
I had high hopes but this is a bummer.
I had high hopes but this is a bummer.
15 of the top 20 highest paid Kansas City, MO city positions are in the fire department. #20 earns $215,212.
Maybe they've overextended their goodwill just a little?
Maybe they've overextended their goodwill just a little?
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
15 of the top 20 highest paid Kansas City, MO city positions are in the fire department. #20 earns $215,212.
Maybe they've overextended their goodwill just a little?
Maybe they've overextended their goodwill just a little?
I need someone smarter than me about the NWSL to confirm or dispel my pessimism about @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social's future.
While it could have been brilliant strategy or luck, I feel like this year's dominant team was all about timing and they can't keep it together.
While it could have been brilliant strategy or luck, I feel like this year's dominant team was all about timing and they can't keep it together.
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I need someone smarter than me about the NWSL to confirm or dispel my pessimism about @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social's future.
While it could have been brilliant strategy or luck, I feel like this year's dominant team was all about timing and they can't keep it together.
While it could have been brilliant strategy or luck, I feel like this year's dominant team was all about timing and they can't keep it together.
This may be reductive, but if we've spent billions on modern fire code implementation, shouldn't that have resulted in savings in our investment in municipal fire departments?
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This may be reductive, but if we've spent billions on modern fire code implementation, shouldn't that have resulted in savings in our investment in municipal fire departments?
What Kansas City is taking far too long to understand...
Important comment from JAUNT CEO Mike Murphy during his informative presentation to council on Monday: transit works well when higher density housing exists. Transit policy is directly tied to housing policy.
Presentation here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...
Presentation here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
What Kansas City is taking far too long to understand...
Blue Nitro.
Feels like cheating when my brother and I named our dog after an American Gladiator.
Feels like cheating when my brother and I named our dog after an American Gladiator.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Blue Nitro.
Feels like cheating when my brother and I named our dog after an American Gladiator.
Feels like cheating when my brother and I named our dog after an American Gladiator.
Oopsie daisy, accidentally murdered a journalist! We'll try to tone down the future murdering!
Anyway, thanks for having us over to the Home Depot gold palace, pal!
Anyway, thanks for having us over to the Home Depot gold palace, pal!
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Oopsie daisy, accidentally murdered a journalist! We'll try to tone down the future murdering!
Anyway, thanks for having us over to the Home Depot gold palace, pal!
Anyway, thanks for having us over to the Home Depot gold palace, pal!
Very calm before the storm vibes right now. Markets teetering on the edge of an AI bubble burst, the GOP dam bursting on the Epstein files... it is going to be a painful but cleansing next few weeks.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Very calm before the storm vibes right now. Markets teetering on the edge of an AI bubble burst, the GOP dam bursting on the Epstein files... it is going to be a painful but cleansing next few weeks.
My two bike ride inspirations for the winter that I invite anyone to join:
1. Ride every mile of streets and trails that once had streetcars on them (and document any evidence of them)
2. Weekly long night rides exploring closed streets, renegade trails, and forgotten industrial areas.
1. Ride every mile of streets and trails that once had streetcars on them (and document any evidence of them)
2. Weekly long night rides exploring closed streets, renegade trails, and forgotten industrial areas.
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My two bike ride inspirations for the winter that I invite anyone to join:
1. Ride every mile of streets and trails that once had streetcars on them (and document any evidence of them)
2. Weekly long night rides exploring closed streets, renegade trails, and forgotten industrial areas.
1. Ride every mile of streets and trails that once had streetcars on them (and document any evidence of them)
2. Weekly long night rides exploring closed streets, renegade trails, and forgotten industrial areas.
Two observations in this discussion:
1. The fact that there is robust debate over the answer is a great sign that American cities are broadly on the ride
2. Coastal folks really need to get out more
1. The fact that there is robust debate over the answer is a great sign that American cities are broadly on the ride
2. Coastal folks really need to get out more
Which US city has improved the most over the past 15 years?
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Two observations in this discussion:
1. The fact that there is robust debate over the answer is a great sign that American cities are broadly on the ride
2. Coastal folks really need to get out more
1. The fact that there is robust debate over the answer is a great sign that American cities are broadly on the ride
2. Coastal folks really need to get out more
I just want Kansas City to be a city where the first conversation people have when meeting at a bar or coffee shop isn't about where they parked. Before I die, please. We've come so far, and yet...
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I just want Kansas City to be a city where the first conversation people have when meeting at a bar or coffee shop isn't about where they parked. Before I die, please. We've come so far, and yet...
I get that there is a visceral appeal to giving food items to drives, but if you want to be effective, just give money! Food banks have bulk purchasing power that goes way further, and that's before the insane waste of logistics hauling that food all over the place.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I get that there is a visceral appeal to giving food items to drives, but if you want to be effective, just give money! Food banks have bulk purchasing power that goes way further, and that's before the insane waste of logistics hauling that food all over the place.
Reposted by Matt Staub
This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
I don't know which is worse: that they're willing to look this stupid and assume their audience is this stupid to try to land a rhetorical jab, or they really are this stupid.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don't know which is worse: that they're willing to look this stupid and assume their audience is this stupid to try to land a rhetorical jab, or they really are this stupid.
@kansascitycurrent.bsky.social sax anthem every game please. 💯
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@kansascitycurrent.bsky.social sax anthem every game please. 💯
Same.
The policy ideas helped build an identity and a movement. Some may be unfeasible or even counterproductive, but they resonated on a grander level than the specifics. I love the energy and excitement, and for people to feel like NYC belongs to them too.
The policy ideas helped build an identity and a movement. Some may be unfeasible or even counterproductive, but they resonated on a grander level than the specifics. I love the energy and excitement, and for people to feel like NYC belongs to them too.
This is basically why I find myself massively rooting for Mamdani despite still having a fair bit of scepticism about his specific policy ideas
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Same.
The policy ideas helped build an identity and a movement. Some may be unfeasible or even counterproductive, but they resonated on a grander level than the specifics. I love the energy and excitement, and for people to feel like NYC belongs to them too.
The policy ideas helped build an identity and a movement. Some may be unfeasible or even counterproductive, but they resonated on a grander level than the specifics. I love the energy and excitement, and for people to feel like NYC belongs to them too.
The way the blue robot immediately starts celebrating its win...
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The way the blue robot immediately starts celebrating its win...
There are 10 US Senators who represent states with a smaller total population than Mamdani's vote haul tonight.
What a weird system.
What a weird system.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
There are 10 US Senators who represent states with a smaller total population than Mamdani's vote haul tonight.
What a weird system.
What a weird system.
Reposted by Matt Staub
Zohran's vote count is roughly the entire population of Delaware
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Zohran's vote count is roughly the entire population of Delaware
The story you've been clamoring for: the petty NIMBYs of New Amsterdam. That latest from Multistory
youtube.com/shorts/b7j5k...
youtube.com/shorts/b7j5k...
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The story you've been clamoring for: the petty NIMBYs of New Amsterdam. That latest from Multistory
youtube.com/shorts/b7j5k...
youtube.com/shorts/b7j5k...